Sycon Idea

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 11, 2010 at 06:36 PM

Hi Daly,

I use Sycon IDEA at one of my company’s long-term projects for a client. Overall, I find it satisfactory; what it does, it does well. A benefit is that some years ago we contributed the translation of the interface in Greek which is important for our client.

The commercial versions of IDEA have not advanced much in recent years, but work has been going on behind the scenes. My company is currently testing a very impressive web client which can provide direct (live) access to any IDEA database through Internet Explorer.

Christian from Sycon informed me that regarding the commercial editions, current work has to do with ensuring full compatibility with Windows 7 / Vista.

That said, I would have difficulty recommending IDEA as a personal knowledge base or information management system. Other commercial products have obviously advanced much faster in terms of features in recent years. Where IDEA maintains its raison d’etre is as an affordable multi-user system, thanks to its client-server architecture (Team Edition). There’s not much software at this budget level, as far as I know; I have personally identified only InnoKB (from MyBase’s developer) and X2Net OneStore.

Note that Sycon is not just an IT company, but as I understand software is linked to its business services, so it is not strange that their focus is on companies.

Hope this helps
Alexander